EMGT 6225 — Economic Decision Making

4 semester hoursGraduateLectureusually offered: fall, spring, summerBostonOnlineOnlineTraditional

Explores economic modeling and analysis techniques for selecting alternatives from potential solutions to an engineering problem. Considers measures of merit, such as present worth, annual worth, rate of return, and benefit/cost techniques. Examines recent techniques of economic analysis, especially the tools of decision making. Explores decisions under uncertainty. Studies the causes of risk and uncertainty, and examines ways to change and influence the degree of risk and uncertainty through sensitivity analysis, expectation-variance criterion, decision tree analysis, statistical decision techniques, and multiple attribute decision making through group case studies.

Offering history

TermSectionsEnrolledCapacityFullOpen seats/section
Summer B 20232418449%21.5
Fall 2023418420590%5.3
Spring 2024418320490%5.3
Summer A 20242699771%14.0
Summer B 20242679968%16.0
Fall 2024413220365%17.8
Spring 2025412018565%16.3
Summer A 20251485096%2.0
Summer B 20252679769%15.0
Fall 202537913260%17.7
Spring 202637511565%13.3

Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.

Meeting times

Share of recent sections by weekday: M 29% · T 16% · W 12% · Th 21% · F 3%

Common patterns: async (42% of sections), M (21% of sections), R (9% of sections), W (8% of sections), T (5% of sections), MR (5% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday

Professors

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Spring

Summer A

Summer B

Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.

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